Congratulations, again! Margo graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing. She completed the program in two rather than the normal four years still achieving the highest honors of Summa Cum Laude with a perfect grade point average! What an incredible success.
Congratulations! Arno graduated from one of the best high schools in Texas with a year to spare. He’s going to be 17 for a good while longer. We are incredibly proud of him and can’t wait to see what the next chapter in his life brings.
Can’t believe I haven’t touched a camera in three months but here we are. Margo and I went out to take a few graduation pictures for her cards. It was great fun and, at 19, she’s now almost done with college.
Now that the holidays are officially over, Margo and I wanted to catch a bit of a break at the various museums in downtown. There wasn’t much traffic and very few people around, all of which made for a nice afternoon.
This was another momentous year highlighted by the birth of our son Arno, which was an emotionally intense experience for us yet again. We were overjoyed when he finally arrived and promptly took him to Germany so that my parents could meet him. Thus, Arno boarded his first intercontinental flight at the age of 9 weeks. We also moved into our house in Dallas, thus gaining more space and also a location much closer to downtown and its many cultural possibilities.
We had a very successful year professionally and personally as well. It was mostly a year of coming together as a family. All of us went to Germany to visit my parents twice while Nils and I spent a few sunny days in Spain.
This is the first year of our blog, if you want to call it that. It was a momentous year in that we could witness the birth of our daughter Margo, which certainly was the happiest moment in my own life until that day. Meredith and I subsequently moved into a house in Carrolton north of Dallas with her son Austin and Margo.
